We have a Walmart Neighborhood Market close to our house. Its pretty upscale and convenient. I go there a couple times a week and never have need to go to one of the big Wal-Marts. I probably hadn’t been to one of them in more than a year.
I went to get a cheap TV for the patio. Holy schit, it’s like some sort of dystopian scene from some crappy movie. Half the merchandise in certain sections (electronics) is locked up and you have to get some surly black chick to unlock it. The people…oh the people inside. No checkers. No problem use self checkout. Oh, self checkout doesn’t take cash. Get beeped going out the door have to pull out receipt and treated like criminal.
I know Amazon is the enemy, but none of these corporations are any better than the other. I’m going with the one that has this schit on my porch tomorrow evening without having to venture forth and feel like I’m on the set of Soylent Green.
Why did you '"get beeped"?
Didn't remove a tracking tag?
What did you expect the door monitor to do, ignore the beep?
Did they apologize when they determined that you weren't shoplifting?
Around here there is always at least one customer service person stationed in the self-checkout area to help people with things like buying alcohol.
I have noticed that there is tighter security in more "ethnic" areas. There are WMs in Omaha that I wouldn't consider going to outside of daylight hours.
